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His grandmother has been telling Max that he is an incompetent, clueless weakling since he was a child and she'd spend the day sitting in the back of his classroom to be sure he came to no harm. But she is not at all pleased with how things are run in Germany: the doctors and teachers are incompetent, the food is toxic, and the Germans are generally untrustworthy. When his grandmother-a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna-moved them from the Motherland it was in search of a better life. Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany.
From the acclaimed author of The Hottest Dishes Of The Tartar Cuisine "a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience" ( The New Yorker).
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